Re: Is this a bug in autoconf?

[Tom Tromey]

Mo> Ok, I can buy that --host argument, but then why does using --host
Mo> also not work?

I don't remember the details or the history here.  (I'm sure Ian does,
but I don't know if he lurks here or not.)

Practically speaking, nearly everybody who does regular cross-compiles
does so on in the context of a Cygnus-style tree (with the old Cygnus
configure at the top).  The Cygnus configure sets CC, CXX, etc,
appropriately.  So, the people who most commonly do cross builds have
had no incentive to fix autoconf to do the right thing...

Tom